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Fed’s fractured vote signals trouble ahead for future rate cuts

Mint Chennai

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December 12, 2025

Jerome Powell pushed through a rate cut Wednesday over the broadest reservations of his nearly eight-year tenure, and in doing so, implicitly delivered a pointed message to President Trump and his own successor:

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Fed’s fractured vote signals trouble ahead for future rate cuts

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

Cutting rates is harder than it looks.

The decision drew three dissents—two from officials who opposed any cut and one from a Trump ally who wanted a larger reduction.

The formal vote understated the resistance. Four other officials registered a quieter objection in the Fed’s quarterly projections: They wrote down a higher interest rate for 2025 than the one the committee approved—a signal they wouldn’t have cut. Together with the dissenters, that is roughly a third of the policymakers who attend Fed meetings.

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